Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first referendum concerns the seventeen teaching appointments made last December by Mayor Edward J. Sullivan and his "independents...
...make an impression on the delegates to the annual meeting of the 21-nation Colombo Plan, the British-fostered scheme designed to help the backward nations of Southeast Asia. New paint gleamed everywhere. Old buildings and the sidewalks before them were scrubbed as clean as any in Amsterdam. Mayor Nguyen Phu Hai had sternly forbidden his citizens to spit in public or walk even partially naked in the streets. Energetic President Ngo Dinh Diem's capital had come a long way from the fear and misery of the days when every sidewalk café was guarded by heavy wire...
Potent Arm. Mayor Lawrence appeared on the municipal scene just when Financier Richard K. Mellon (Mellon National Bank, Gulf Oil, Alcoa) and a platoon of lesser tycoons were preparing to rip their dowdy old city apart and rebuild it. Lawrence proved to be a valuable political ally. He ordered strict enforcement of smoke-control ordinances, pressured Democrats at Harrisburg and Washington to pass laws and approve appropriations that helped build new roads, bridges and dams. His reward: the business community's gratitude. Four years ago Lawrence's Republican opponent was not even invited to participate in the face...
Visiting Manhattan last week to boost the National Fund for Medical Education, President Eisenhower took time as well to boost an old friend. Summoned to Ike's Waldorf-Astoria suite for 15 minutes of pleasantries and pictures was Robert Keaton Christenberry, 58, Republican candidate for mayor of New York in next week's election. Christenberry has had rough going battling the entrenched solidity of Incumbent Democrat Robert F. (for Ferdinand) Wagner Jr., who has served one four-year term, wants a second, has a good chance in Democratic New York City of getting what he wants. Candidate Christenberry...
Thus virtually unchallenged, Democrat Wagner is campaigning less against Christenberry than against complacency. New York's mayor can be a big fish in national Democratic waters; in addition, New York's Wagner wants desperately to be elected to the U.S. Senate (he lost last year to Republican Jacob Javits by 450,000 votes), where his father, the late Robert F. Wagner Sr., left a record as a promoter of organized labor. For another crack at the Senate, Wagner must roll up a big vote next week; Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio has passed the word that Wagner needs...